Four pounds of apples, cored and cut up, but not peeled, or green gooseberries, or green peaches and apples, mixed, one wine bottleful of vinegar, one pound of coarse sugar.

a river of blood

Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.

And overcome us like a summer's cloud.